Plex update for Windows, Windows Phone brings Plex Home and playlist support

Plex users rejoice! The media streaming service has just updated its Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 apps! While there's nothing groundbreaking in this update, you do score Plex Home support, as well as playlist support as the major new features.

Additionally, Plex has made a few other changes and fixes in version 1.8, which you'll find detailed in the full changelog below:

Plex Home support

Playlist support

(Video) Native MKV container support on Windows 10

(Video) Access Now Playing queue from video player

(Play Queues) Enable local Play Queues with synced albums and seasons

(Play Queues) Add Play Next option

(Music) Display actual artist when playing "various artist" albums

(Sync) Don't attempt to sync while playing video

(Sync) Sync composite images

(Interface) Moved account page to settings flyout

Explain automatic sign-out when plex.tv password changes

Indicate how many items are in a video Play Queue

If you're unfamiliar with Plex Home, it is a feature that allows you to set up a group of users that can all stream from the same Plex media center — something that could be infinitely useful for whole families.

Again, because Plex is one of those nifty universal apps, these updates apply to both the Windows and Windows Phone versions, so feel free to grab them from the links below.

If you don't have network hard drive then Plex is good option, needs it server running on a computer all time. If you have network hard drive with uPnP then Moliplayer works well...although its not as good as Archos media player on Android!

Its an app to stream content wirelessly from your pc or the drive where you store your media content to your mobile device (which could be a phone or tablet).
Plex supports most platforms like Windows, ios, Android etc. but you need to download the Plex Desktop Client on your PC/Laptop/Macbook/Chromebook, first.

Because they continue to support me is why I continue to support Plex. Good news. I hope they do something with the Amazon Stick. Either they need to work the software for it or Amazon needs to address it. Never had a crash.

I've found that launching media the normal way is inconsistent for offering you a resume option. However it's much more reliable when launching from the play queue. So when it crashes I just bring the play queue up and resume from there; it works almost every time.